Baldwin VI de Mons

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Baudouin VI
• Fact: Count of Flanders, and (as Baldwin I) Count of Hainaut

Baldwin married Richilde of MONS about 1055. Richilde was born about 1034 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium; died on 15 Mar 1086. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Baldwin II was born about 1056; died after 08 Jun 1098 in In the East, on the 1st Crusade.
2. Arnoul III Count Of FLANDERS was born in 1055 in Flanders, Belgium; died on 22 Feb 1071 in Cassell, Prussia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 1035, Acceded
• Fact: Between 1035 and 1067, Count

Notes:

Excerpt from "Directory of Royal Genealogical Data":
Entered into hostilities with Emporer Otho II and aquired from that monarch Valenciennes and the Isles of Zealand. he subsequently further increased his territories by another rich accession, that of the citadel of Ghent.

Baldwin married Adela Of FRANCE about 1028 in Paris. Adela (daughter of Robert II and Constance Of ARLES) was born in 1009 in France; died on 08 Jan 1079 in Monastaere De L'ordre De St., Benoist, Messines, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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During their long marriage, Baldwin and Adela founded several churches and a Benedictine convent in western Belgium in the village of Mesen (sometimes called Messines). they also rebuilt the monastery of Einham. After Baldwin's death in 1067. Adela became a nun, receiving her veil from the hand of Pope Alexander II. She then retired to her convent at Mesen. She died on 8 January 1079 and was buried in the crypt of the convent's church, which is called the Church of St. Nicholas.